The Arizona sentinel., 1887-05-21
pRoeREss AT wALTHAM.

The American Watch Company seem determined to maintain the proud posi- tion they have long occupied among manufacturers of pocket timepieces During an interview the other day with a representative of Robbins x Apple ton, he said: 'We have number of novelties that ought to be worthy ot vour attention, and in fact of the trade in general. During the year 1886, we have had steadily-increasing demand for our better class of goods. This is owing to the very great improvements which have therein been accomplished. For instance, all the watches fitted with our patent Breguet hair-spring have met with special favor, because ot the great amount of extra quality which this hair spring imparts to the goods. The company seem to have pursued the policy of not increasing the quan- tity of their lowest priced goods, but rather of putting the better and medium grades at figures which bring them within the reach ot a very limited purse, and en- able dealers with very limited capital to lay in an assorted stock of good quality goods of great popularity The B artlett watch may be taken as an example. Here is movement equipped with all that can possibly beput into watch to make it thorough time keeper, and its price is fabulously low An English watchmaker recently took one of these Bartlett movements of the new model examined it carefully, and quietly put it together with the remark: This movement is worth t9. Yet It is sold fer nearly as many dollars.
 I've have turned out some very flne work in the way of beautifying the ap- pearance of the watch, both in nickel frosting and raying, which never had been done before. These processes permit an almost endless variety of de- signs and patterns which adapt them selves beautifully to the shape of the watch-plate.
 '.The chief novelty with which the company start out this year is their one size watch-the smallest and thinnest, as well as the finest, ladies watch ever made in this country. The diameter its dial is just the size of half dollar piece. The train is made of gold; the jewel-settings ikewisei and the jewels themselves are faultless rubies of the darkest color The watch is thorough ly adjusted, and capable of the very finest time keeping. Its price is very moderate-indeed, considering the ex- tra fine quality and superior finish. 1t IS wonderfully low.
 Another novelty is the 'Waltham Minute Register Chronograph.' This watch is so constructed as to show by means of a diminutive dial-bit and special hand the minutes during which | the long, -tifth-second hand revolves.
 Here my informant exhibited the oper- ation of the chronograph. The long fifth-second hand and the small special hand are normally stationary at l2, or zero. By pressing the stem, both hands are started, the small hand recording successive minutes up to fifteen. At any moment both hands may be stopped, and another motion sends 1 them back to zero. ''This device IS especially useful to sportsmen, scien- 1 tists, physicians, engineers, machlnIsts, etc. The same attachment is applied to the Waltham split seconds chrono- l graph, making it the most durable watch of the kind, inasmuch as the mechanism is very simple and almost indestructible. The Waltham chrono- graph is made in the first place to be an accurate time-keeper, built on the model of the company's finest 14-size watch. On top of this movement and without complicating it, the chrono- graph attachment is fastened, thu' clearly exposing to view the entire
 monograph apparatus. The plaines' country matchmaker can take the at tachment apart and set it together again without trouble. A Swiss watch maker recently remarked that nobod! would have dreamed ten years ago tha the Americans would ever be able tt make any so-cslled complicated time keepers, and that they really do no make them; but they obtained watche that had the most exact and minut time-keeping on much simpler con struction. As consequence, the Amer ican watch is more reliable, less costl, to produce, and certainly without ex pense to keep in thorough-going order
 1.-The company have added severa grades of six-size watches to their list which they will be able to put on tn, market in the neighborhood of Marcl |. This will make eight different qual ities of six-size movements, which with the various cases-hunting ant open-face, gold, silver and aluminine- with an almost endless variety O ladies' watches, affords arrange of choic, from the cheapest limit at which golt watch may beexpected to the diamond studded watch for the millionaire wife During the year 1886 we have adde' two new grades of sixteen-size watches which really make that part of the as sortment a surprising one. Sixteen size watches of the Waltham patterl have always been considered a yer. dear watch to make; but it seems tha the increase in the product has enable' the company to amplify the line by tn
 addition of the Riverside grades. Tn
 most satisfactory line of our goods that of the patent dust-proof silve open-face cases, which are the mos popular of the kind. For strength, sim plicity of construction and durabllit | I o11 11